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The Waterfall
RHEINFALL, or the Rhine Falls, is the largest waterfall in Europe, measuring 150 meters in width. It is always a pleasure to experience the massive amounts of water. If you can choose, then come during summer when the flow is more than 600.000 liters per second! Many paths, steps and even a glass panoramic elevator lead to the falls. And very close, you can even…
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The Eiger Glacier
The EIGERGLETSCHER, (-glacier) at the foot of the mountains Mönch and Jungfraujoch, and the Eiger mountain are the impressive views we enjoyed from the terrace of the restaurant of the same name. Lunch is always good when sitting on a sunny terrace in 2322 meters a.s.l., and then with THIS view!! The restaurant is open all year, so no reason to wait. Some interesting hiking…
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Rome
Fantastic ROME, this was our third visit, but last time was over 10 years ago 🙁. We just love this lively city. We only had a long weekend and quickly visited the big, touristic sites and then found some less crowded and interesting places. Rome by foot is simply the best, so the first day we walked over 23000 steps, it’s hard to be a tourist.…
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The Goms Bridge
The BRIDGE over the Lamma Gorge just sways a little when crossing it. The 280 meters long suspension bridge hanging 92 meters above the river Rhône leads from Fürgangen to Mühlebach, the oldest wooden village centre in Switzerland. The opening of the bridge in 2015, with the baptism by the local hero, 2014 Olympic gold medalist in snowboarding, Patrizia Kummer, gives much easier access to…
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The ALETSCH glacier
The greatest glacier in the Alps – it‘s HUGE!!!! First of all it begins with a massive 900+ meters thickness of compact ICE, and this ice “river” stretches over 22 kilometres. Terrific, overwhelming, stunning…etc.….The glacier moves about 180 meters per year, 2 cm’s a day 🙂 ending up as cold, cold, water forming the river Massa. It’s difficult to explain a glacier, you just have to see…
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Fasnacht in Basel
The ”drey scheenschte Dääg”, or the three most beautiful days, are the 3 days where Basel celebrates the ‘carnival’ called Fasnacht. It is the largest carnival in Switzerland and dates back to at least 1376. Due to the earthquake in 1356 there is no older documented proof of the origin. The parade starts from early Monday morning, 4:00AM!!!! All light in the city centre is…
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Leukerbad
THERMAL water/baths is still one of the main reasons for visiting Leukerbad; at least it was for us. 3.900.000 liters of thermal water, with a temperature up to 51 °C, flows in the many pools every day, the biggest volume in Europe! Leukerbad, or Baadu as the locals call it, was already known in the Roman times. Many of the pools are just for private…
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Gemmipass
FRESH AIR, hot thermal water and stunning surroundings are enough reasons for us to visit Leukerbad in about 1400 meters a.s.l. This small and quiet town has been known since the Roman times, yes even the Romans knew the therapeutic effect of the thermal water at that time. Later many British people travelled to benefit from the hot water, too. Today it is also great…
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Snow grooming
PIZOL was again the mountain we targeted for our latest experience. Being passenger on a snow groomer, the PistenBully, of the highest level of performance and technology, WAUW! The meeting point is Pardiel mountain station, here we were greeted by the skilled and friendly drivers, and off we go, late in the afternoon just before it got dark. The deep sound of the 12.8 liter,…
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Hannig & Kreuzboden
VIEWS from mountains to other mountains are always impressive. So when we were in Saas-Fee we also went to Hannig by cable car. Enjoying morning coffee from the terrace of the restaurant at 2350 meters above sea level was a delight. We were, as often, blessed by fantastic sunny and clear weather, so Allalinhorn, Täschhorn and Dom (the highest mountain in Switzerland, 4545 m, if…
